Regulation may impact on financial risk taking by financial intermediaries by way of the decision-making process …

This paper examines capital adequacy regulation in Germany. After a short overview about financial regulation in … Germany in general, the paper focuses on the most important development in the area of capital adequacy regulation from the … models for financial regulation is problematic. Finally, some suggestions of how the problems could be addressed are given. …

regulation, recovery and resolution, and risk culture. …

challenges are addressed, capital regulation can be a powerful tool for enhancing the role of banks in the economy. …

The global financial crisis has further highlighted the importance of bank capital regulation for the stability of the … banking system. This article aims to reconcile the views of the academics and regulators about bank capital regulation …. Lightweight and procyclical bank capital regulation with ample possibilities for regulatory arbitrage has contributed to the pre …

benefits. Contrary to claims in the literature that “equity is expensive” and that regulation requiring more equity in the … funding mix entails costs to society, such regulation actually helps create useful commitment for banks to avoid the … inefficiently high borrowing that comes under laissez-faire. Effective regulation is beneficial even without considering systemic …

. Contrary to claims in the literature that "equity is expensive" and that regulation requiring more equity in the funding mix … entails costs to society, such regulation actually helps create useful commitment for banks to avoid the inefficiently high … borrowing that comes under laissez-faire. Effective regulation is beneficial even without considering systemic risk; if such …

-level sources of risk are much easier for corporate governance and regulation to address than risk arising at the systemic level … limited role in the regulation of systemic risk and then relates this discussion to the current state of affairs in the …